Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] I did correspondence, etc.’ This is interesting because the Allied occupation of West Germany ended in May 1955, leaving four more years unaccounted for in Dr Lewinson’s intelligence career pre-CIA. (Dr Lewinson remarks that she spent five years in Munich at some time during this 1946-59 period.) The apparent implication is that Dr Lewinson’s […]

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘The US Army built a bunker in Ancon Hill in the Quarry Heights section of Panama City. It was used by US Southern Command, and included an intelligence centre. Other underground bases include tunnels at two antiaircraft posts and a bunker at Gordo Hill between Paraiso and Gamboa which were built during the Second […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the alarms triggered by the Able Archer exercise, which a lone Russian intelligence officer decided to ignore.1 Often these nuclear threats and alerts have been described as essential to US credibility. That magic word was also used in 2008, […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] into consumer goods and now is shifting fast into capital-intensive sectors based on high technology. The upshot has been rapid creation of a powerful telecommunications and artificial intelligence industry. China is in the vanguard of nations developing 5G technology, seen in the success of Huawei in penetrating international markets. This economic expansion has facilitated […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from the leaking of US National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools which fell into the wrong hands – known as the ‘Shadow Brokers’ – in 2016. US intelligence sources thought there was North Korean as well as Russian involvement with what happened to the leaked tools which, when used by the miscreants, caused global […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is five years before Dr King was murdered, and while President Kennedy and his brother Robert were still in office. October 15, 1963 On this date, FBI Intelligence Operations chief William C Sullivan disseminated a memo. In it, he announced the completion and imminent circulation of a dossier entitled ‘Communism and the Negro Movement […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] later I received a reply (on 1 See . plain A4 paper, signed with a wiggly line with no name beneath it) informing me that the Secret Intelligence Service has not disposed of human remains in the last 15 years. Encouraged, I wrote again, this time asking for the release of the Service’s internal […]

Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies by Morag G. Kerr

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the plane? – and the British were reluctant to to investigate Heathrow, 1 This book arrived the day that Exaro published material showing (again) that the US intelligence people didn’t believe the Libya-dunnit story. See . so both fell with enthusiasm on the Malta solution; and, she concedes, both sets of investigators genuinely believed […]

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